If the instrument should go into effect, it will relieve the parties from a grievance which has hitherto been a cause of frequent annoyance and sometimes of dangerous irritation.
A copy of Mr. Motley's dispatch on the subject and of the act of Parliament of May 12, 1870, are also transmitted.
U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, May 28, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the document[22] by which it was accompanied.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 31, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, an additional article to the treaty of the 29th of November last, for the annexation of the Dominican Republic to the United States, stipulating for an extension of the time for exchanging the ratifications thereof, signed in this city on the 14th instant by the plenipotentiaries of the parties.